Wagon-reach.



PATENTBD NOV. 22, 1904.

J. SIMPSON.

WAGON REACH.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 7. 1904.

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Patented November 22, 1904.

PATENT FFICE.

JAMES SIMPSON, OF CROOKSTON, MINNESOTA.

WAGON-REACH.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 775,316, dated November 22, 1904.

Application filed. July 7 1904. Serial No. 215,624. (No model.)

To n, whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J AMES SIMPSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Crookston, in the county of Polk and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in lVagon-Reaches; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in reaches for wagons or other vehicles.

The object of the invention is to provide a wagon-reach which may be adjusted to fit any length vehicle and which is adapted to have a limited oscillating movement, thereby relieving the same from strain due to the uneven movement of the vehicle.

A further object is to provide a reach of this character which will be simple in construction, strong, durable, and well adapted to the purpose for which the same is designed.

\Vith these and other objects in view the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, combination, and arrangement of parts, as will be more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a vehicle runninggear, showing the application of the improved reach. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view, and Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-sectional view of the same on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 denotes the rear bolsters of the vehicle running-gear. 2 denotes the hounds. 3 denotes the connecting-block on which the forward ends of said hounds are connected. Connected at its rear end to the bolster 1 is a central longitudinally-disposed metallic tube it, the forward ends of which are fixedly mounted in the connecting-block 3 of the bounds. In the connecting-block 3 is formed a vertical transversely-disposed slot 5, the side walls of which diverge or flare outwardly toward their lower ends, as shown at 6. Through the connecting-block 3 is also formed a longitudinally-disposed aperture or hole 7. \Vithin the slot 5 is loosely mounted a block 8, through which is formed a longitudinally-disposed hole or aperture 9, said hole and the hole '7 in the connecting-block 3 being in alinement with each other and with the tube 4.

Slidably mounted in the tube 4 and passing through the holes 7 and 9 is a reach-bar 10, said reach-bar being provided with a series of holes or apertures 12. The block 8 is provided with the vertically-disposed hole or aperture 13, with which the apertures 12 in said reach-bar are adapted to be brought into alinement. A pin or bolt let is adapted to be inserted through said aperture 13 to engage one of the apertures 12 in said rezu-h-bar, thereby adjustably connecting said reach-bar with the vehicle running-gear. By this construction the reach-bar 10 may be lengthened or shortenedto lit the running-gear of any vehicle, and by connecting the same with the block 8 an oscillatory movement may be had by either the running-gear or the reach, so that when the vehicle is tilted to one side or the other said reach-bar will not be twisted or strained, owing to the limited rocking movement permitted by the downwardly and outwardly inclined walls of the slot 6, which allows the block 8 and the connecting-block 3 to have a limited rocking movement one with respect to the other.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction and operation of the invention will be readily understood without requiring a more extended explanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination with the rear bolster and hounds of a vehicle running-gear, of a longitudinally -disposed metal tube, one end of which is fixed in said rear bolster and the opposite end in the connecting-block of said hounds, said connecting-block being provided with a vertical transverse]y-disposed slot, the side walls of which slot flare outwardly at their lower ends, and with a longitudinallydisposed bore which is in line with said tube, ning-gear of the vehicle and permitting said an apertured oscillating block having a roundreach and said running-gear to have a limited ed upper surface, plane sides and bottom and oscillatory movement one with respect to the arranged in said slot, an apertured reach-bar other, substantially as described. 5 '5 slidably mounted in said tube and passing In testimony whereof I have hereunto set through the aperture in said oscillating block my hand in presence of two subscribing Witand the ends of the hound-block, and a pin nesses.

adapted to be passed through the upper side JAMES SIMPSON. of said oscillating block and to engage one of Witnesses: IO the apertures in said reach-bar thereby ad- E. MAECKEL,

justably connecting said reach-bar to the run- N. CAMPBELL, 

